Campbelltown and Camden councils call for citizen scientists

A budding new citizen-science project to better the understanding of wildlife habitats will be unearthed in the Macarthur region.

NATURAL NOOK: Budding citizen scientists will be tallying the amount of animals like this possums they find in tree hollows of the Macarthur region. Picture: Margo Smith.

A budding new citizen-science project to better the understanding of wildlife habitats will be unearthed in the Macarthur region.

Camden Council and Campbelltown City Council are among 30 councils calling on keen botanists to count the amount of wildlife and tree hollows for the new Sydney-wide Hollows as Homes project.

In NSW, 46 mammals, 81 birds, 31 reptiles and 16 frogs are dependent on hollows for survival and residents are needed to monitor hollows and artificial nests used in backyards, parks, paddocks or on streets.